The novel Written on the Body (1992) was published
after Jeanette Winterson had gained international reputation as a
postmodernist ‘queer' writer with her previous novels Oranges
Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Boating for Beginners
(1985), The Passion (1987) and Sexing the Cherry
(1989). She was hailed from her very first novel as a very
promising writer of the new generation. Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit earned her the Whitbread First Novel Award, The
Passion the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and Sexing the
Cherry the E.M. Foster Award. Her first novel, Oranges Are
Not the Only Fruit, was made into a highly popular TV drama
that won two BAFTA awards, one f…

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Sorop, Aloisia. "Written on the Body".
The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 December 2008
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8889, accessed 31 March 2015.]

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